Ironing-board



E. M. TRAMMELL AND W. C. CAROTHERS.

momma BOARD. I APPLICATION FILED DEC- 27, I920.

' Patented July 12, 1921.

6 a z #WS UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

EARL M. TRAMMELLMAND W L IA CsGARQ'lI-IERS, or wAoo, TEXAS.

VIRONING-BIOARD.

2 0 all whom it may concern: 1

Beit known that-we, EARL M. THAM- MELL and WI LIAM C. ()Ano'rnnns, both citizens of the United States, residing at \Vaco, in the county of McLennonand State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ironing boards of the class in which the board is placed, when not in use, in a cabinet orcloset attached to or built into the wall of the room and in which it is concealed and so held as to present no obstruction in the room, the board being so mountedin a cabinet that when desired it may be lowered from a vertical to a horizontal position in condition for use. In many such ironing boards their inner or lower ends are pivotally connected with the sides of the cabinet, while their outer ends carry braces or legs for their support, and while such boards are very useful and serviceable they nevertheless are not conveniently used when ironing seamed garments such as dresses and skirts where it is necessary or desirable to insert the board into the garment.

According to our invention, we provide a cabinet which may be either built into or attached to the side wall of a room, and we provide an ironing board which has no braces or legs at its outer end but is so connected at its inner end with the cabinet that it may be securely held when either raised or lowered. This is accomplished by forming slots or grooves of suitable shape in the sides of the cabinet and providing the sides of the inner end of the board with studs which engage these grooves or slots and are free to move therein. A recess is formed in the back portion of the cabinet with which the rear end of the board engages when lowered. The arrangement is such that when theboard is raised to a vertical position within the cabinet its rear or lower end rests on. the bottom of the cabinet, but when the boardis lowered to a horizontal position its rear end enters the recess and the rear portion of the board rests on the bottom of the cabinet. In this way the board is so firmly and securely-Y held that braces or legs for'its outer portion are rendered unnecessary.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 'is a perspective view of a com Specification of Letters Patent Patented July 12, I921. Application filed December 27, 1920. Serial bined ironing board and cabinet embodying our improvements.

Figs. 2 and3 areonanenlarged scale. Fig. 2 is avertical section through the lower portionof the cabinet and indicates the connection between the inner or rear end. of the board and the cabinet.

Fig. is a local horizontal section further illustrating the invention; i

The cabinet may be built into the side wall of a room or it maybe attached thereto in any suitable way. In general. it may be of any suitable construction. As shown, it comprises a casing A having a door B, the door opening being sufficiently long to admit the ironing 1s raised'to avertical position. The door 7 B is hingedto the casing, as indicated at c.

A closet I) below thecabinet may be used to store irons and other accessories.

In each side wall E of the cabinet we form a slot or groove 6 which extends vertically downward, as indicated at e, and is then bent rearwardly, as indicated at 6 the walls of the part 6 of the groove or slot being curved, as shown. These slots terminate a short distance above the bottom of the cabinet. The two slots on opposite sides of the cabinet are of, the same shape and each of these slots or grooves is engaged by a stud f extending laterally from the ironing board near its rear end. In the back wall of the cabinet We form a recess 9 which is preferably formed in an inserted block or board of relatively thick material. The recess is 7O 7 board 0 when the latter I adapted to receive the rear end of the board When it is desired to use the board the door may be opened andthen by taking.

hold of the upper portion. of the board it may be tilted forward and downward, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. While being thus lowered the studs follow the grooves or slots and the rear end of the board is guided into the recess 9.

When the boardis lowered into the position shown by full lines in Fig. 2,

its rear end enters the groove as shown while its rear portion rests on the bottom a of the cablnet.

Any tendency of the-board to lower at its front or outer end when pressure is applied will beqresisted bythe upper wall g of the recess 9 while the bottom a of the cabinet rovides a firm support for the rear portion of the board. It will thus be seenjthat the outer supporting braces or legs, often employed in this class of boards, are. by our invention rendered unnecessary. It Wlll be ,further observed that the cabinet and the board are of the verysimplest construction,

" can be made at low costbut at the same time are strong anddurable and easily installed.

l/Ve claim as our invention The comblnation wlth a 'cablnet having anorlzontal bottom and VGTtlCZl slde walls and having afrecess in its back wall and a groove in each side wall near its front and above ing an upper, straight, vertical portion and a rearwardly curved lower portion terminat- 7 bottom ofthe cabinet, and an ing above the having studs on ts oppos te ironing-board sides entering the grooves in the sidewalls its bottom, each of said grooves hav- 

